Horsehead-Marbella (Conanicut Island - Jamestown)

USA / Rhode Island / Jamestown / Conanicut Island - Jamestown / Highland Drive, 240
 house, mansion / manor house / villa, Victorian (architecture)

In 1882 Joseph Wharton (d.1924), his brother Charles, and other friends purchased plots in Jamestown, Rhode Island, across the bay from Newport and built summer homes there. On his thirty acres, Wharton hired architect Charles Lovatt Bevins (1844-1925) to construct "Marbella", a large stone house with a prominent tower overlooking the entrance to Narragansett Bay. it was later inherited by his daughter Anna and her husband Harrison Smith Morris who called it "Horsehead" after a rock formation on the cliffs below that looked like the head of a horse from a certain angle.
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Coordinates:   41°28'34"N   71°22'29"W

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  • Joseph Wharton died January 11, 1909 (aged 82)
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